We need your help in participating and completing a brief survey. We would like to receive as much feedback as possible on the attached survey detailing Access-A-Ride services for individuals who use this service. The deadline for responses will be COB …

Disability Justice advocates from around New York focused on how to make the city prioritize accessible transit tonight, at a packed-room panel discussion at “All Access”, NYLPI’s pop-up social justice museum. “Examples abound of cities that are doing …

Gothamist reporter Jen Chung has cited NYLPI’s figures in a story about New Yorkers signing up for new half-priced MetroCards through the new Fair Fares program. New Yorkers with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to poverty and unemployment, wit …

NYPLI Access-A-Ride Campaign Coordinator and Organizer Eman Rimawi has been invited to join New York City Transit’s new Advisory Committee on Transit Accessibility (ACTA). Eman was selected from dozens of qualified and passionate individuals to join th …

The New York Times ran an in-depth feature this morning on efforts to reform the Access-A-Ride service, quoting our ally in the Access-A-Ride-Reform-Group, Joseph G. Rappaport, the executive director of the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disab …

With the city’s subways still largely inaccessible for people in wheelchairs, the New York City Department of Transportation has today announced that it will allow vehicles with the City’s accessible van transportation system, Access-A-Ride, to ride in …